Geology Review

Earth's tectonic plates have been _________ moving and interacting for __________ of years

• quickly

  billions

• slowly

  hundreds

• quickly

  thousands

• slowly

  billions

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Before people understood _________, __________ help explain unpredictable natural events

• Earth

  hypothesis

• science

  hypothesis

• Earth

  myths

• science

  myths

Name the layers of the Earth in order

Bonus points if you can tell me something about each layer*

_________ form when earthquakes occur in the oceanic crust causing the seafloor to shift. they travel ____ as much as 500 miles per hour. they can grow to be as tall as a three or four-story building.

• hotspots

  slow

• tsunamis

  fast

• craters

  fast

• hot springs

  slow

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A volcano is _________ if it has not erupted for at least 10,000 years and is _____________ to erupt again

• active

  likely

• extinct

  likely

• extinct

  not likely

• active

  not likely

A volcano is considered _______ if it has erupted in the past 10,000 years and is _________ to erupt again.

• extinct

  likely

• extinct

  not likely

• active

  not likely

• active

  likely

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

a volcano is considered _________ if it hasn't erupted for a long time but could erupt again.

• active

• not active

• extinct

• dormant

Earthquakes usually begin with ______ blocks of rock moving along ______ or tectonic plate boundaries

• small

  seismic waves

• huge

  plate tectonics

• huge

  faults

• small

  faults

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Alfred Wegener's continental drift hypothesis explained _______, Earth's one huge landmass, climate change of the continents, and how groups of plants and animals that once lived together were separated. It did not explain how these things happened.

• Pangea

• Magnitude

• Plate Tectonics

• Ocean Trenches

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

_____________ is the process of oceanic plates moving apart very slowly. this may cause an ocean trench or a un underwater mountain called an _____________ to form.

• ocean trench

  deep ocean ridges

• seafloor spreading

  mid-ocean ridges

• plate tectonics

  ocean ridges

• seismic waves

  tsunamis